Bot IP: 123.183.224.94

Name: Bot IP Lookup: 123.183.224.94 (Sogou Spider)
Creator: Track-A-Bot

Sogou Spider is the web crawling bot operated by Sogou, a major Chinese search engine, used to index web content for its search results.

Likely legitimate

Track-A-Bot Trust Score: 77/100

score

0255075100

Why Track-A-Bot rated this IP (tap to expand)

Identity

✅ Marked as bot traffic
✅ Bot name present
⚠️ User-agent does not match bot name
✅ User-agent includes identity link/email

Hostname

✅ Hostname observed
ℹ️ Hostname does not resemble bot name
ℹ️ Hostname status not verified
✅ No hostname mismatch flags

Behavior

ℹ️ No /robots.txt request observed
✅ No referrer (typical crawler behavior)
✅ Mostly 200/304 responses
📌 Visits: 35
⏱️ Age: 1471h

Penalties

✅ No major spoof pattern
✅ No fingerprint fields
✅ Cookies not enabled
✅ No connection type

Total visits: 35 First seen: Mar 17th, 2024 9:16 PM Last seen: May 18th, 2024 4:40 AM

Known Hostname(s)

sogouspider-123-183-224-94.crawl.sogou.com

Known User Agent(s)

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.86 Safari/537.36
Sogou web spider/4.0(+http://www.sogou.com/docs/help/webmasters.htm#07)

Known Accepted Language(s)

zh-cn

Known Accepted Encoding(s)

gzip,deflate

Common User-Agent Tokens

These are identifiers found inside user-agent strings we observed for sogou-spider.

Token

Seen

First seen

Last seen

sogou

11,479

3/19/24

12/12/25

sogou 11,479 seen

First 3/19/24

Last 12/12/25

spider/4.0

11,478

3/19/24

12/12/25

spider/4.0 11,478 seen

First 3/19/24

Last 12/12/25

web

11,478

3/19/24

12/12/25

web 11,478 seen

First 3/19/24

Last 12/12/25

x86_64

3/17/24

7/30/24

x86_64 66 seen

First 3/17/24

Last 7/30/24

build/grj22

12/12/24

12/12/25

build/grj22 3 seen

First 12/12/24

Last 12/12/25

cyanogenmod-7

12/12/24

12/12/25

cyanogenmod-7 3 seen

First 12/12/24

Last 12/12/25

mb200

12/12/24

12/12/25

mb200 3 seen

First 12/12/24

Last 12/12/25

mqqbrowser/26

12/12/24

12/12/25

mqqbrowser/26 3 seen

First 12/12/24

Last 12/12/25

build/huaweibra-al00

12/18/24

build/huaweibra-al00 1 seen

First 12/18/24

Last 12/18/24

covc/046801

12/18/24

covc/046801 1 seen

First 12/18/24

Last 12/18/24

mqqbrowser/14.6

12/18/24

mqqbrowser/14.6 1 seen

First 12/18/24

Last 12/18/24

pic

11/2/25

pic 1 seen

First 11/2/25

Last 11/2/25

spider/3.0

11/2/25

spider/3.0 1 seen

First 11/2/25

Last 11/2/25

vog-al00

12/18/24

vog-al00 1 seen

First 12/18/24

Last 12/18/24

Identity Links

These are URLs we observed in association with sogou-spider (often used as an identity, help, or policy link).

URL

Seen

First seen

Last seen

www.sogou.com/docs/help/webmasters.htm#07

11,479

3/19/24

12/12/25

www.sogou.com/docs/help/webmasters.htm#07 11,479 seen www.sogou.com

First 3/19/24

Last 12/12/25

Bot FAQ for this IP

Why is sogou-spider visiting my website?

Sogou-spider is visiting your website as part of its web crawling activities. Based on the recent logs, it accesses your homepage regularly, likely to index your content for the Sogou search engine. The user agent and reverse DNS (sogouspider-123-183-224-94.crawl.sogou.com) suggest it is the official Sogou bot. Crawlers like this typically visit public sites to gather information for search results. If you do not want sogou-spider to access your site, you can disallow it in your robots.txt file. To control its activity, consider rate limiting, monitoring its access patterns, or using a web application firewall (WAF).

What does sogou-spider do?

Sogou-spider is a web crawler operated by Sogou, a major Chinese search engine. Its main function is to scan and index publicly available web pages so they can appear in Sogou’s search results. The bot visits your site using a user agent that mimics a standard browser, and the hostname matches Sogou’s known crawler infrastructure. It typically requests your homepage and follows standard crawling behavior. If you want to manage how sogou-spider interacts with your site, you can specify rules in your robots.txt file, monitor its requests, and set up alerts for unusual activity.

Is sogou-spider safe?

Based on the user agent and reverse DNS, this appears to be the legitimate sogou-spider. However, as with any bot, it’s important to verify authenticity and monitor its behavior. While sogou-spider is generally not harmful, excessive crawling can impact your server performance. To ensure safety: 1) Check the reverse DNS and user agent for consistency. 2) Use robots.txt to control access. 3) Implement rate limiting to prevent overload. 4) Monitor logs for unusual patterns. 5) Consider using a WAF to block or challenge suspicious requests. If you notice unwanted behavior, you can block the bot’s IP or restrict it further.

This page provides a detailed lookup for the bot with the IP address of 123.183.224.94, based on real-world traffic observed across websites using Track-A-Bot software. Use this information to verify whether activity from this IP belongs to a legitimate search engine crawler, or to analyze bot behavior on your website.